The copyright wars, cont.

The War on Authors isn’t new. Dickens, Victor Hugo and others were vilified for promoting copyright law more than a hundred years ago. What’s new is a technology that tips the scales against authors

Article at Trichordist, summing up the situation re. "Orphan Works' The five-part series starts here.

Orphan works are works whose authors can't be located - with the implication (by some) that their copyright status should therefore be in doubt. (Or not, as the series lucidly argues.)